Stephen T. Hearst

Vice President & General Manager, Western Properties

Stephen
T. Hearst is vice president and general manager of Hearst Corporation’s Western
Properties. He is responsible for managing Hearst’s extensive ranching, timber
and property operations—primarily located in California. Properties include the
historic 82,000-acre ranch that surrounds Hearst Castle, the 71,000-acre Jack
Ranch in Paso Robles, 61,000 acres of timberlands in Northern California and
Hearst Corporation’s commercial real estate interests in San Francisco...

Stephen
T. Hearst is vice president and general manager of Hearst Corporation’s Western
Properties. He is responsible for managing Hearst’s extensive ranching, timber
and property operations—primarily located in California. Properties include the
historic 82,000-acre ranch that surrounds Hearst Castle, the 71,000-acre Jack
Ranch in Paso Robles, 61,000 acres of timberlands in Northern California and
Hearst Corporation’s commercial real estate interests in San Francisco and
Southern California.

Steve began his tenure with the Hearst Corporation
in 1975 at the Los Angeles Herald
Examiner. While working through the Examiner’s
management program, Steve worked in all production departments and gained
experience in advertising and circulation sales management. He left the Examiner to take a position with
International Circulation Distributor, the magazine distribution arm of Hearst
Corporation.

Settling in the Bay Area in 1984, Steve embarked
upon a 14-year career at the San Francisco Newspaper Agency, a subsidiary of
Hearst Corporation. Starting in the circulation department, he became the
circulation director in 1991. In 1993, Hearst was promoted to vice president of
business operations and information systems for both the Examiner and Chronicle
newspapers. In 1995, Steve Hearst was named vice president of circulation and
information systems. He was responsible for all circulation and systems
operations planning at the Newspaper Agency.

In November 1998, Steve left the San Francisco
Newspaper Agency to accept his current position, vice president and general manager
of Western Properties. Upon taking on these responsibilities for Hearst’s real
estate holdings, he committed to pursuing an overall conservation solution for
the Hearst Ranch. This land transaction was referred to by the New York Times as, “one of the most
complicated land transactions in the United States.” Its successful completion
in 2005 denoted the largest land conservation deal in California history.

Steve serves on the Hearst Corporation Board of
Directors and the Hearst Corporation Audit Committee. He is the founding
chairman of the Board of the California Missions Foundation and he was
instrumental in the formation of the Hearst Cancer Resource Center in San Luis
Obispo, Calif., where he also sits on the Board. Steve has served on many non-profit
boards and committees. Steve also served on the Board of Directors of Stanford
Hospitals and Clinics.